I remember the first time I met Josh Hamilton. He walked slowly up the steps, through the box seats behind home plate at Joseph P. Riley Jr. park in Charleston, South Carolina. He was wearing a gray Tampa Bay Devil Rays t-shirt and white game pants.

Hamilton was clean shaven with curly brown hair – and not a single tattoo. He dropped into one of the empty box seats on a hot, humid July 4 late afternoon in South Carolina and propped his massive feet on the seat in front of him. That’s what I remember most: his massive feet.

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On April 15, 2013, two bombs exploded on Boylston Street just feet from the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The explosion took the lives of three people and injured an estimated 264 others. Dr. Joseph Murphy, a college professor and athletic trainer, was a medical volunteer that day. What he saw changed his life – permanently.